The Studio

We're a casual game development studio based in Hyderabad, India. Our goal is to develop great games that people love to play.

Why?

We get asked this quite often. Or variants. "Are you sure you want to quit Oracle to do this? Think of what this does to your value on the marriage market". "You gave up a job offer worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? What were you smoking"? "Tiger Tail? Way to go, dude! I never knew you were into this animal conservation s#@$, man!" "

So why exactly did three sane individuals (okay, maybe calling Shubhank that is a stretch, but you get the idea) come together to do TigerTail? Well, we think it has something to do with the joy of creation. Has there ever been a time when you've played a kick-ass level on a game, or watched an awesome sequence in a movie, or read a wonderful climax to a book, or even sunk your teeth into a heavenly dessert, and gone "F#%@, man! That was AWESOME! I wish I could make something like that".

And THAT is why we do it. That is the kind of stuff we want to create and that's the kind of reaction we want to bring out. A little bit more about the core team below.

Mansur

CEO. Part-time game designer. Coffee-maker.

In an earlier avatar as software engineer at IBM, was known to hate management coz of their general incompetence, empty talk and lack of value to an organization. 2 years at IIM Ahmedabad convinced him that he was wrong. No longer believes that incompetence and talk are not valuable to an organization.

Loves strategy, simulation and adventure games. Rates Simcity, Commandos and the Zelda series as his all-time favorites. Big Nintendo fan-boy and tends to use Zelda and Mario as examples in all discussions. New convert to casual games.

Sankar

Vice-president, Part-time game artist. Coffee-frother.

In an earlier avatar as software engineer at Oracle, was known to hate management coz of their general incompetence, empty talk and lack of value to an organization. Err...secretly still does, but is worried about the consequences of letting Mansur know that. Brilliant programmer. The person to blame if any of the TigerTail games coz your comp to crash.

Loves Half-Life 2 above all else. Is known to moan "Gordon Freeman" in his sleep. Is also a big fan of the Commandos and NFS series'. Is known to quote examples from Half-Life in all discussions.

Shubhank

Head of design. Part-time Flash specialist. Coffee-drinker.

Is sick of examples from Half-Life, Zelda and Mario. Almost as much as he was sick of Patni when he was there. The creative soul of TigerTail Studios. Which is why when someone asks us if we've sold our soul to the devil, we usually say that our soul IS the devil.

Rates the Thief series as his all-time favourite. Also loves horror games. His roommate once walked in on him when he was playing Fear and nearly had a heart attack. Rumour has it it was not because of the game

Surendran

Flash expert. Part-time 3DS Max junkie. An-tea-totaller.

Just a year into TigerTail, and he has already left an indelible mark. And not just because of his pink I-pod and orange headphones.

The residential Sony nut, Surendran is our one-stop review shop for any game on the ps2 or psp. When he's not coming up with cool concepts for our upcoming games! Rates God of War and Loco Roco among his favourite titles.

Keshav

TigerTail's newest face and a member of one of India's best Age of Empires clans, Keshav is our solution to Sankar's marauding Persian elephants. To be read absolutely literally. We're still waiting for Keshav to send in his photo and lines about himself. We're hoping that the delay means there's at least one of us who's working. We hope.

Needless to say, he rates Age of Kings : Conquerors edition as his favourite game and the Mayans his favourite civilization